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TIL Lorillard Tobacco Company used to hand out Newport cigarettes to black children in playgrounds

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7rpPp TIL the word 'grenade' comes from the French word for pomegranate whose outer appearance and seeds resemble a grenade and its fragments
kWad TIL That the original voice actor for Betty Boop and Olive Oyl (Margie Hines), died only 4 years ago at the age 101 years old. She also married the man who provided the voice of Popeye, so Olive Oyl and Popeye did eventually live together!
oBxpW TIL Elijah Wood spoke of an organized child sex abuse in Hollywood (before the Weinstein and #MeToo incidents)
gM09W TIL the United Nations defines youth as persons between the ages of 15 and 24.
8a4p4 TIL a sheep, a duck and a rooster were the first passengers to fly in a hot Air Balloon.